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Washington Post Caught Spreading More Fake News About “Russian Hackers”

Readers of the Washington Post received some alarming news yesterday when the paper published a story alleging that those pesky “Russian hackers” were up to their no good tricks again and had managed to “penetrate the U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont.” The full headline read as follows:

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The opening paragraph of WaPo’s story directly linked the “hack” of the Vermont utility to the same “Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe” that the Obama administration has blamed for the DNC and John Podesta email hacks. Vermont’s Governor, Peter Shumlin, told WaPo that “Americans should be both alarmed and outraged” by these actions perpetrated by “one of the world’s leading thugs, Vladimir Putin,” before seemingly calling for further retaliatory actions from the Obama administration.

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Putin Lashes Out At Obama: “Show Some Proof Or Shut Up”

by Tyler Durden

Putin has had enough of the relentless barrage of US accusations that he, personally, “hacked the US presidential election.”

The Russian president’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on Friday that the US must either stop accusing Russia of meddling in its elections or prove it. Peskov said it was “indecent” of the United States to “groundlessly” accuse Russia of intervention in its elections.

“You need to either stop talking about it, or finally show some kind of proof. Otherwise it just looks very indecent”, Peskov told Reporters in Tokyo where Putin is meeting with Japan PM Abe, responding to the latest accusations that Russia was responsible for hacker attacks.

Peskov also warned that Obama’s threat to “retaliate” to the alleged Russian hack is “against both American and international law”, hinting at open-ended escalation should Obama take the podium today at 2:15pm to officially launch cyberwar against Russia.

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US Accuses Vladimir Putin Of “Personal Involvement” In Election Hack

by Tyler Durden

And just like that the narrative of Russia hacking the presidential election has escalated to the highest possible level, and has officially jumped the shark.

Moments ago, following a month-long barrage of unsubstantiated stories in the press accusing the Russian government of indirectly hacking the US presidential election, which culminated with last night’s 8,000 word NYT expose, and which followed a schism between the FBI and CIA, in which the former disputed the latter’s “fuzzy and ambiguous” claims that Russia sought to influence the presidential elections, moments ago the NBC News reported that U.S. intelligence officials believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election.

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MORE BLS BULLSHIT

Here we go again. The MSM is screaming about the FANTASTIC job growth in June. They fail to mention the May numbers were reduced to 11,000 jobs. It’s likely the Verizon strike has screwed up their little seasonally adjusted data models they use to fake the monthly numbers.

How come the MSM isn’t reporting the Household Survey numbers? It seems they are in major disagreement with the Establishment Survey. The fake unemployment rate actually jumped from 4.7% to 4.9%. Let’s look at some facts from the Household Survey that are getting buried by the feckless mainstream media:

Only 67,000 more Americans were employed versus May. Slightly less than the 287,000 being reported by the MSM.
The number of unemployed SOARED by 347,000, as people previously classified as not in the labor force suddenly decided to join the labor force. I wonder why? I wonder when the other 94.5 million people not in the labor force will decide to join the labor force?
Our booming economy has created a grand total of 23,000 new jobs since January. WINNING!!!
There are currently 223,000 less people employed than there were in March. That’s certainly an inconvenient factoid.
The employment to population ratio has fallen for four straight months and at 59.6% is near three decade lows.
In the first six months of 2016, the good old birth death excel spreadsheet adjustment has added 509,000 phantom jobs from all the companies opening for business. There are more companies closing than opening, so this number is completely false and is likely NEGATIVE 500k or more.
If 287,000 jobs were added, indicating strong demand, why did wages rise a pitiful 0.1% and the workweek hours remained flat? Because the 287,000 is a made up lie by the BLS. Wages have risen by 2.6% in the last year, below the true rate of inflation. Shit jobs pay shit wages.

There is exactly four months left until the presidential election. Expect more “positive” economic reports as the establishment will lie, cheat, and fake the data to get Crooked Hillary elected. Anyone with two functioning brain cells can see with their own eyes we are in the midst of an ongoing recession. But there are tens of millions of zombies who are distracted by their iGadgets, twitter, instagram, facebook, and the various adventures of Hollywood stars and professional athletes to notice what the ruling class is doing.

So it goes.

Society Commentary A Former Transgender Person’s Take on Obama’s Bathroom Directive

Guest Post by Walt Heyer

President Barack Obama, the titular head of the LGBT movement, has added to the firestorm of confusion, misunderstanding, and fury surrounding the transgender bathroom debate by threatening schools with loss of federal funding unless they allow students to join the sex-segregated restroom, locker room, and sports teams of their chosen gender, without regard to biological reality.

His action comes after weeks of protests against the state of North Carolina for its so-called anti-LGBT bathroom bill.

As someone who underwent surgery from male to female and lived as a female for eight years before returning to living as a man, I know firsthand what it’s like to be a transgender person—and how misguided it is to think one can change gender through hormones and surgery.

And I know that theNorth Carolina bill and others like it are not anti-LGBT.

“L” is for lesbian. The bill is not anti-lesbian because lesbians have no desire to enter a stinky men’s restroom. Lesbians will use the women’s room without a second thought. So the law is not anti-L.

“G” is for gay. Gay men have no interest in using women’s bathrooms. So the law is not anti-G.

“B” is for bi-sexual. The “B” in the LGBT have never been confused about their gender. Theirs is also a sexual preference only that doesn’t affect choice of restroom or locker room.

“T” is for transgender. The “T” identifies a person who has undergone hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery, and legally changes the gender marker on his or her birth certificate.

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FBI’s Own Report Exposes “War On Cops” As Pure Propaganda

Submitted by William Grigg via The Free Thought Project,

Following a year in which the public was relentlessly barraged with alarmist rhetoric about a “war on cops” and the dreadful impact of the so-called “Ferguson Effect,” official FBI statistics confirm that violent line-of-duty police deaths declined precipitously in 2015.

According to the Bureau:

“Preliminary statistics … show that 41 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty in 2015. This is a decrease of almost 20 percent when compared with the 51 officers killed in 2014.” A greater number of officers (45) suffered fatal injuries in duty-related accidents, 41 of which involved motor vehicles.

Through May 17 of this year, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page, there have been 35 line-of-duty police officer deaths, 21 of which involve violence, such as gunfire or vehicular assault. This suggests that 2016 might see an increase in that grim total, but fortunately that remains only a possibility.

Throughout 2015, law enforcement officials, police unions, and even FBI Director James Comey warned of a “war on cops” that was supposedly an outgrowth of what they called the “Ferguson Effect” – police reluctance to use force because of concerns over negative publicity. On May 10, for instance, Comey reiterated that theme, insisting that the “viral video effect” has changed “the way police may be acting” by inhibiting them from taking assertive action to deal with violent crime. This supposedly leaves police more insecure, thereby emancipating criminals to wreak havoc on under-protected communities.

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Stucky Q.O.T.D. —- Bullshit

Here is what the author of the below diagram wrote;

“I created The War on Bullshit while completing my PhD. It helped keep me sane during a horrible, frustrating experience. Bullshit is a ubiquitous social phenomenon that’s causing serious problems for humanity. Bullshit is not untruth but a message conveyed regardless of truth. It’s not that the bullshitter is necessarily trying to deceive but that he or she does not care about the truth. Graduate school is remarkably high in bullshit.” ——– War on bullshit website

The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense

QUESTION: Referencing the above diagram …. what bullshit do YOU still believe?

(Please don’t bullshit me! Don’t give me any crap about how you don’t believe in bullshit … how you are too enlightened to believe in bullshit … that your beliefs are pure as the driven snow. THAT is pure bullshit. Face the fact that we all believe in at least some bullshit, no matter how smart you think you are.)

Note to bb: Please limit your bullshit beliefs to 3,000 words.

THE TRUTH ABOUT MODERN ART

BULLSHIT SELLS

Amazon made $588 million in profits in 2004 on $7 billion in sales. This past year they made $596 million in profits on $107 billion in sales. Dumbass investors have rewarded its 0% profit growth over the last 11 years by driving the stock from $50 per share in 2004 to $586 per share today. And this is after a $54 plunge last week. This juggernaut has a PE ratio of 473. Amazon is proof that bullshit sells on Wall Street and Main Street. Bezos has been saying he’ll make it up on volume for 11 years, but it never seems to happen.

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